A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
All hail, once pleasing, once inspiring shade!
Scene of my youthful loves and happier hours!
Where the kind Muses met me as I stray’d,
And gently press’d my hand, and said “Be ours!-
Take all thou e’er shalt have, a constant Muse:
At Court thou may’st be liked, but nothing gain:
Stock thou may’st buy and sell, but always lose,
And love the brightest eyes, but love in vain.”

A few random poems:
- World’s Sweetest Sister Of Mine by Miraj Patel
- A Dream by Robert Burns
- Robert Burns: The Trogger.: Heron Election Ballad, No. IV.
- Аля Кудряшева – Тяжело деревьям зимой
- The Living Beauty by William Butler Yeats
- A Meeting by Wendell Berry
- The Song of the Cheerful (but slightly sarcastic) Jesus by Oliver St. John Gogarty
- Гавриил Державин – К первому соседу
- Игорь Северянин – Памяти О.Н. Чюминой
- Plaidoirie for a “Prince” of Jaffna by T. Wignesan
- Even Because by Ralph Angel
- Handy Man by Shel Silverstein
- Олег Чупров – Комар
- Lines Inscribed in a Lady’s Pocket Almanack by Robert Burns
- She
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Unlyric Love Song
- Tube Station
- To Be Blind
- The Man In The Bowler Hat
- the_children_look_at_the_parents.html
- The British
- symphony_in_red.html
- seaport.html
- sea.html
- quickstep.html
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- not_love_perhaps.html
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works